To celebrate Black History Month in Year 3, we have looked at Nelson Mandela. We began the session by discussing what we thought were our rights in school and how everyone should be treated equally and have the same rights. To understand more about how people could have been treated differently and have different rights, Miss Procter asked the children with blue eyes to sit right in front of her, all the children who didn’t have blue eyes had to sit at the back. We talked about how this made us feel and why it is unfair.

We learnt about South Africa during the 1900’s and how people who lived in the country at the time did not have equal rights. We learnt about what Nelson Mandela tried to do about this and why he is considered to be an important person in history.

Bluebirds have discussed what makes a good school council representative. We decided that the two children we chose had to be confident speaking up in front of other people and good at listening to suggestions from the class.

We decided that the two children that will represent our class this year will be…